STAMFORD — In 1981, Doug Llewelyn did not hesitate when he got a call from legendary radio and television creator Ralph Edwards asking if he wanted to play a court reporter on a new daytime show.

Llewelyn was 32 and just completed a dozen years as a television news reporter in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. It wasn’t often someone got a call from Edwards, who helped create, host and produce “Truth or Consequences,” “This Is Your Life” and “Name That Tune,” Llewelyn said, so he jumped at the chance.

He signed on to what now is regarded as the country’s first reality TV show, “The People’s Court.”

Some 35 years later, Llewelyn is working in Stamford, where “The People’s Court” has been taped since 2012. Llewelyn has resumed his compassionate kiss-and-cry interviews of the litigants leaving the courtroom, now presided over by Judge Marilyn Milian, in a studio at the Connecticut Film Center on Stillwater Avenue.